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Getting ready for Winter

Hello All, I am getting ready to winterize my 1996 Lakeview with twin 350's and a Westerbeke generator. Aside from the obvious, anti-freeze, oil and filter change, fuel filter. Any other suggestions? The boat stay's in the water year round so not alot I can do with the outdrives. Any thoughts will be helpful. Thanks

You didn't fill out your profile so we don't know where you boat. If your a newbie check and see what your neighbors do and follow their lead. Winterizing is area specific. Northern areas involve more items than southern.

I read a very interesting article on this a couple of years ago - I wish I had kept it. The article was based on pure math. If you take the volume of empty space in a partially filled fuel tank and the relative humidity of the air and an assumed exchange percentage for each day and the dew point and apply the math over a typical winter, you will get maybe a cup of water. You are not going to get gallons and gallons of water in your tanks based on condensation.